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Sunshine
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0 posted 2000-08-16 10:19 PM


In Mine Eyes

You are there
in mine eyes
simply stare
into mine eyes

do not harbor
weak goodbyes
but look direct
into mine eyes

simple come
you did just that
simply go
here's your hat.

I came clean
I told the truth
know I'm not
a teller's booth

here you are
no shining star
but here I've raised
the tell-tale bar.

©Karilea Rilling Jungel
16 August, 2000



© Copyright 2000 Karilea Rilling Jungel - All Rights Reserved
Elizabeth
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1 posted 2000-08-16 10:39 PM


I liked the verse about coming clean...good work.


Elizabeth


Why ME???

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2 posted 2000-08-16 10:50 PM


Elizabeth, just so, and that you are my grandmother's name, as it should be...
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3 posted 2000-08-16 10:51 PM


"do not harbor
weak goodbyes
but look direct
into mine eyes"

words of wisdom... wonderful verse here, K...! thanks for a pensive look inside a special  poet's heart

Sudhir Iyer
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4 posted 2000-08-17 04:34 AM


may I say...

Wisdom personified ... by divine sunshine

regards
sudhir

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5 posted 2000-08-17 07:25 AM


Nicely penned Sunshine! Much enjoyed this gem and it's wisdom!  

Best wishes,
/Kit

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6 posted 2000-08-17 08:29 AM


Doreen, Sudhir, Kit, thank you...

Karilea
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Mark Bohannan
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7 posted 2000-08-17 04:15 PM


I came clean
I told the truth
know I'm not
a teller's booth

Your wisdom and your strength in belief of yourself is so evident and I must applaud your honesty in all you share.  Excellent verse and power packed.

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8 posted 2000-08-17 04:21 PM


Isn't it amazing, Mark, how you can just know when poets are drawing on truth and experience? Thanks so very much for your comments...I always treasure them...
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9 posted 2000-08-17 08:35 PM


Sunshine. . . just wonderful my friend. . . just wonderful. . .

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That which gives light must endure burning
--Victor Frankl


Sunshine
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10 posted 2000-08-17 11:06 PM


Thank you, Sven...

Karilea
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11 posted 2000-08-17 11:12 PM


Direct and to the point... very nice rhythm on this one.

-jaimie
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Sunshine
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12 posted 2000-08-18 08:52 AM


Thank you Jaimie...

Karilea
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13 posted 2000-08-18 12:45 PM


Sunshine

I loved this pensive work.  I liked the rhyme you used and the verses were short and to the point.  Excellent!!!

Garfield

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14 posted 2000-08-18 01:31 PM


I would have used the word "terse", but pensive works, too!  Thank you, Garfield...
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